Apr 03, 2008 - Sale 2140

Sale 2140 - Lot 91

Price Realized: $ 20,400
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 10,000 - $ 15,000
XENOPHON. Opera omnia quae extant. Greek text. [4], 87, [119] leaves, including the 2 blanks and final leaf with Aldine device * PHILOSTRATUS, FLAVIUS. De vita Apollonii Tyanei. [with EUSEBIUS, Liber contra Hieroclem]. Greek text with Latin translations by Alamanno Rinuccini and Zanobi Accaioli. [66]; [8], 73, [1] leaves, including blank h10 and final leaf with Aldine device. 2 parts in one volume. Together, 2 volumes in one. Folio, 317x214 mm, contemporary calf over pasteboard, blind-tooled to panel design with covers additional gilt-stamped XENOPHON / ET PHILO / STRA / TVS on front and VALEN / TINI / PANNO / NII on rear, worn, lacking catches and clasps, rebacked with endpapers renewed, covers detached, front free endpaper and first title loose; scattered minor stains, mostly at beginning and end of volume, some early underscoring, contents otherwise generally quite clean. Signature on title of J. Wright dated 1690; leaf of early owner's notes in Latin bound at end. (Venice: Aldine press, 1525; 1504)

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first aldine collected edition of the writings of Xenophon, bound with the first aldine edition of Philostratus's biography of the Neo-Pythagorean philosopher Apollonius of Tyana (d. circa 97-98 A.D.), and first edition of Eusebius's attack on Hierocles for comparing Apollonius to Christ. Hoffmann III, pages 79 and 574, and II, 100; Renouard, pages 100 and 26.